If more punk was like this band and the bands they're playing with, we'd be alright. I think some of the tour dates above are incomplete as I know they're opening for Ceremony in Cambridge, MA as well.

It is. Unless you live on the other side of the state, don't get out of work until 5pm, would need a solid hour and a 40 minutes to make the trip out east and ---- oh wait, there's conveniently no tickets for the tiny venue show, so there's no guarantee you'll even get in! ---- add to that, gas is at $3.60/gallon, and it's basically one of those "don't chance it unless you live really close" type of shows that shuts the rest of us out.

Ah, bummer. Well, hopefully they will sooner rather than later! Or maybe play a show in Easthampton/Northampton (I assume based on your comments that you live out thataway. Lovely area, I miss it a little.)

Be thankful to have the choices you do in your direction. Northampton's show selection sucks really bad and have spiraled downward for the past year at a rapid pace. I think their main concentration now is on indie-folk, singer-songwriter hippie type music. The last show I saw out there was Against Me!/Screaming Females/Lemuria and that was last summer. It's flipping terrible. I even went so far to write a polite yet disappointed letter to the IHEG letting them know their booking style has gone off course. No reply, though. Sometimes The Flywheel puts on a decent show, but it's few and far between. I'm starving out here for a good show and with adult responsibilities, the trip out to some place that does have one isn't as justifiable as it was when I was younger.

They have all ages shows at The Middle East if the band requests it. No Age has done them, Andrew Jackson Jihad has done them, Thursday has done them and I'm sure there's been more. When I went to see No Age (they played their twice on two separate occasions) and Thursday, the shows started later on at night and if you were under 21, you got an X on your hand. So your point about there needing a venue to follow Cambridge's rules is moot, and coming from someone who doesn't even drink, who the fuck cares if people want to grab one at the bar. There'll probably be more violence and blood in the pit at the Democracy Center than the Middle East Club, with or without alcohol involved.

I have not but I would assume it would be different as I've read up on and watched enough Hate5Six videos to get a good idea. It's not so much the venue of the show that disappoints me, though but just that they aren't making tickets available before the show. Unless you go the extra mile to take time off from work to get there early enough to get in, it's just not at all convenient for anyone outside the local Cambridge radius. Ceremony is on Matador now. They can't keep pretending that they're some small-time basement band anymore.

Seattle was in their original routing but after booking all the shows they found out the only flight they could get from hawaii to seattle wouldn't get them into seattle until 10:30pm... So they couldn't play until closer to midnight on a Monday night. Brian said they are still trying to work something out ... so it still might happen. I know they want to play seattle if they can.